USAGE:
“Alexandra Styron first started reading her father’s novel Sophie’s Choice as soon as it came out, in 1979, when she was a preteenager. A few chapters in, encountering a steamy se x scene, she rushed from the room, overcome with adolescent pudeur.”

5. dishabille or deshabille (dis-uh-BEEL, -BEE)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The state of being partly dressed.
2. A deliberately careless or casual manner.

USAGE:
“Seconds after 7 am on Monday, trousers were dropping and skirts were lifting all along Wall Street. The mass dishabille was part of a site-specific work of performance art.”